Paradigm & Paradigm shift

A paradigm is a pattern of assumptions, concepts, values and practices that constitute a way of viewing reality for the community that shares them. A collective mindset.

A paradigm shift constitutes a transformative change in the basic patterns, assumptions, arrangements that underlay a community’s collective mindset. 

When we speak of “the paradigm,” we are not espousing that there is only one paradigm. Individual domains and communities can all be said to operate within multiple paradigms. Each field contains tens if not hundreds or thousands of experiments and experimenters trying to identify, understand, influence and accelerate the characteristics of a healthy, sustainable social-economic way of life for ourselves, future generations and our planet. When forces and circumstances enable or cause multiple shifts to align, this confluence can trigger a phase transition at a global level.